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Soiling issue

Justme

My son is six now and seven in June he has been soiling since may last year. There has been many a reason that has cropped up ie/ sensory, germs on the toilet and not knowing he wants to go. He is not nor was constipated. It all started in school and now its all the time. We ahve tried social storys having cleaning stuff to clean toilet before he goes. We have done a poo fact file. We have tried getting him to start cahnging himself. None have worked. At present i have a lady helping me from a parent class she is from learning disabilites team but her help comes to a end at the end of the class in 3 weeks. My son was refered to the learning disabilites team but they won't take him on as he doesn;t have a learning disability. HE is under the childrens incontience  team but they only have a couple of ideas as her expertise is in the medical side and my sons soiling is behvoural! I am now worried as whats going to happen if the incontience team runs out of ideas who can i get to help?? 

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  • Jenwren,

    I can't get my head round this at all. So, I'm going to ask the questions I asked previously again:

    .

    Why was your son put on laxatives in the first place?

    And what happens if you stop giving him them?

    .

    As for why he bullies and is being bullied - it's pretty obvious from what you've said.

    He's bullied because he's being singled out as being different (isn't allowed to do certain activities), and because he soils himself!

    And, he 'bullies' because he gets bullied!

    .

    If I were you I'd just stop giving him laxatives, completely - if he's soiling himself so often, he clearly doesn't need them!

    If that leads to 'retention' problems, then start giving the laxatives again, but try to find a dosage level that's high enough to stop the retention, but low enough that he doesn't soil himself all the time!

    And if the problem is that he's hypo-sensitive to the need to go, then you need to get him into a routine were he goes at regular times, before he soils himself.

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  • Jenwren,

    I can't get my head round this at all. So, I'm going to ask the questions I asked previously again:

    .

    Why was your son put on laxatives in the first place?

    And what happens if you stop giving him them?

    .

    As for why he bullies and is being bullied - it's pretty obvious from what you've said.

    He's bullied because he's being singled out as being different (isn't allowed to do certain activities), and because he soils himself!

    And, he 'bullies' because he gets bullied!

    .

    If I were you I'd just stop giving him laxatives, completely - if he's soiling himself so often, he clearly doesn't need them!

    If that leads to 'retention' problems, then start giving the laxatives again, but try to find a dosage level that's high enough to stop the retention, but low enough that he doesn't soil himself all the time!

    And if the problem is that he's hypo-sensitive to the need to go, then you need to get him into a routine were he goes at regular times, before he soils himself.

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